Pakistan's security forces killed several Afghan Taliban fighters in a border clash in Balochistan, state-run media said, after Pakistan carried out aerial and drone strikes in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government said the strikes killed four civilians. The claims could not be independently verified.

Pakistan's state-run media, citing security sources, reported that Afghan Taliban fighters tried to enter Pakistani territory in Balochistan's Gulistan sector on Thursday and carry out an act of aggression. Pakistani forces retaliated, killing several fighters, and intermittent exchanges of fire continued after midnight, the report said. The clash followed what the report described as Pakistani aerial and drone strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday. Afghanistan's Taliban government said those strikes killed four civilians. Details of the casualties and the circumstances leading to the border clash could not be independently verified.
Pakistan's security forces killed several Afghan Taliban fighters in a border clash in Balochistan, state-run media said, after Pakistan carried out aerial and drone strikes in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government said the strikes killed four civilians. The claims could not be independently verified.

Pakistan's state-run media, citing security sources, reported that Afghan Taliban fighters tried to enter Pakistani territory in Balochistan's Gulistan sector on Thursday and carry out an act of aggression. Pakistani forces retaliated, killing several fighters, and intermittent exchanges of fire continued after midnight, the report said. The clash followed what the report described as Pakistani aerial and drone strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday. Afghanistan's Taliban government said those strikes killed four civilians. Details of the casualties and the circumstances leading to the border clash could not be independently verified.